Trump’s border wall construction threatens rock art as old as the pyramids: ‘The ancestors are still here’

The president’s border wall plan could damage or destroy ‘the oldest-known books in North America’…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/24/indigenous-rock-art-border-wall

 

I was an independent observer in the Greenpeace trial. What I saw was shocking

Greenpeace lost – not because it did something wrong but because it was denied a fair trial…

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/28/greenpeace-verdict-pipeline-north-dakota

Navajo alarmed by reports of Indigenous people caught up in Trump immigration raids

That came alongside reports of at least 15 Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico having reported being stopped at their homes and workplaces, questioned or detained by federal law enforcement and asked to produce proof of citizenship during immigration raids that began last week...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/27/navajo-nation-immigration-raids

 

Cargill-MacMillan Family Rebukes Visiting Indigenous Leader

In her open letter, Beka Munduruku states: "You must cease the destruction of our forests. You must stop expanding into our territory. You must stop selling commodities from lands stolen from Indigenous peoples. You must stop the murder of the defenders of these lands." To bring this message to the attention of the family, a full-page advertisement to the Cargill-MacMillan family ran yesterday in the print editions of the New York Times and the Minneapolis Star Tribune...

https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/cargill-macmillan-family-rebukes-visiting-indigenous-leader

Mercury exposure linked to high youth suicides in Canada’s First Nations

"When you eat fish with mercury and you're pregnant, the mercury is actively transported across the placenta… that affects the (foetus) development," she said...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/20/canada-mercury-poisoning-first-nations-indigenous-youth-suicides

New anti-transgender laws will hurt Indigenous peoples’ rights and religious expression

One thing these new laws do not take into account is that the 12 federally recognized tribes in Montana have historically recognized multiple gender identities, including transgender identities. Most Indigenous peoples recognize multiple gender identities that are believed to be the result of supernatural intervention…

https://theconversation.com/new-anti-transgender-laws-will-hurt-indigenous-peoples-rights-and-religious-expression-205742

Vatican Rejects 'Doctrine of Discovery', Used to Justify Colonial Conquest and Land Theft

In a historic shift long sought by Indigenous-led activists, the Holy See on Thursday formally repudiated the doctrine of discovery, a dubious legal theory born from a series of 15th-century papal decrees used by colonizers including the United States to legally justify the genocidal conquest of non-Christian peoples and their land...

https://www.commondreams.org/news/doctrine-of-discovery

Native American children are under threat — again - The Washington Post

Unraveling tribal sovereignty would not only leave Native children vulnerable, but also could undermine tribal territory. Many in Indigenous communities and their allies worry that, as in the past, settlers may be using Native children to access Indigenous resources, especially oil on tribal lands...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2022/11/15/brackeen-haaland-indigenous-tribes

What Native land are you on? This map shows Indigenous tribes' past territories : NPR

President Biden became the first president to officially recognize Indigenous Peoples' Day in 2021, and did so again this year. It falls on the same day as Columbus Day, which was established in part as a way to acknowledge the mistreatment of Italian Americans...

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/10/1127837659/native-land-map-ancestral-tribal-lands-worldwide

Texas draws criticism with plan to lure tourists to sites where Indigenous people were banished

"It's this notion of curating acceptable stories that silence atrocities and then offer this vague narrative in which Native people end up somewhere else, like Oklahoma or Mexico. It's a hypocritical narrative...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/10/texas-draws-criticism-with-plan-to-lure-tourists-to-sites-where-indigenous-people-were-banished

Only racist ignorance lets Rick Santorum think America was ‘birthed from nothing’

Although the United States quickly accuses other nations of genocide, it hasn't acknowledged its own genocide against Indigenous people…

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/27/only-racist-ignorance-lets-rick-santorum-think-america-was-birthed-from-nothing

After Court Rules Dakota Access Pipeline Operating Illegally, Dems Demand Biden It Shut Down | Common Dreams News

...The three-judge panel upheld (pdf) a lower court's ruling that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) violated the National Environmental Policy Act when it granted an easement for DAPL to cross a federal reservoir along the Missouri River, less than a mile from the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation...

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/02/05/after-court-rules-dakota-access-pipeline-operating-illegally-dems-demand-biden-it

Tucker Carlson's Indigenous Peoples Day talking points are White Supremacist talking points

Tucker Carlson repeats White Supremacist talking points regularly on his Fox News show. https://youtu.be/UjWraet5WZ0

India orders ‘staggering’ eviction of 1 million indigenous people. Some environmentalists are cheering - The Washington Post: Analysis

India's Supreme Court has ordered its government to evict a million people from their homes — for the good of the country's wildlife. The ruling, issued Wednesday, was a startling conclusion to a decade-long case that has pitted the rights of some of India's most vulnerable citizens against the preservation of its forests...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/02/22/india-orders-staggering-eviction-million-indigenous-people-some-environmentalists-are-cheering/

The latest front in Canada’s effort to reconcile with the indigenous: Language - The Washington Post

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has often repeated that Canada’s most important relationship is with indigenous Canadians, a group that past governments had long sought to forcibly assimilate into the larger population. One of the pillars of his 2015 election was repairing that relationship, which he told the U.N. General Assembly was “Canada’s shame.”....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/the-latest-front-in-canadas-effort-to-reconcile-with-indigenous-canadians-language/2019/01/31/d3d607d8-24e3-11e9-b5b4-1d18dfb7b084_story.html